The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam (43 page)

72
. e.g.
Groot placaet-boeck
, i, col.
355
-
6
, and ii, col.
2429
; Carpzovius,

Verhandeling
, ch.
64
(pp.
568
-
78
).

73
.
5061
-
389
f.
165
,
16
Oct.
1731
.

1. One of the rare examples is
   5075
   -
   5886
   -
   859
   ,
   16
   Nov.
   1702
   , where in an attestation on the character of a certain Thomas Coning two people declare that they have heard from someone in Alkmaar that Coning and his wife had offered him their daughter,‘wanting to sell him her virginity for a small sum’.
   

2. Wagenaar,
   Amsterdam
   , xii.
   71
   and
   82
   .
   

3. Edward Bristow,
   Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since
   1700
   

   (Dublin,
   1977
   ).
   

4. R
   oodenburg,
   Onder censuur
   ,
   291
   .
   

5. Van Strien,
   British Travellers
   ,
   143
   .
   

79
. Ibid.
61
n.
60
.

1. Breen,
   R
   echtsbronnen
   ,
   125
   and
   460
   .
   

2. R
   oodenburg,
   Onder censuur
   ,
   291
   .
   

3. Mountague,
   The Delights of Holland
   ,
   219
   .
   

4. Het Amsterdamsch hoerdom
   ,
   164
   -
   5
   .
   

5. Grimm,
   Bemerkungen
   ,
   349
   -
   53
   .
   

6. Mandeville,
   Fable of the Bees
   ,
   96
   (see App. I).
   ‌
   

7. On Mandeville’s Dutch background see
   R
   udolf M. Dekker, ‘Private Vices, Public Virtues
   R
   evisited: The Dutch Background of Bernard Mandeville’,
   History of European Ideas
   ,
   14
   (
   1992
   ),
   481
   -
   98
   ; André Hanou,
   

   ‘Mandeville en zijn
   Fabel van de Bijen
   ’,
   Mededelingen van de Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman
   ,
   31
   (
   2008
   ),
   89
   -
   106
   , and Israel,
   R
   adical Enlightenment
   ,
   

   623
   -
   7
   .
   

8. A critical reaction to Mandeville can be found e.g. in
   The Present State
   ,
   

   376
   .
   

9. Calkoen,
   Verhandeling
   ,
   74
   -
   5
   .
   

10. Paape,
    Vrolyke reis
    ,
    164
    -
    5
    .
    

chapter 5

1. e.g. in van Slobbe,
   Bijdrage
   and Schama,
   The Embarrassment
   ,
   467
   .
   

2. Wagenaar,
   Amsterdam
   , xii.
   37
   .
   

3. Böse,
   Had de mensch
   ,
   79
   -
   91
   .
   

4. De Cock,
   Spreekwoorden
   ,
   230
   .
   

5. Cited in Böse,
   Had de mensch
   ,
   88
   -
   9.
   

6. D’Openhertige Juffrouw
   , ii.
   78
   .The quotation is taken from
   The London Jilt
   , in which this episode (pp.
   137
   -
   40
   ) is transformed into a deal with ‘an Officer in the Spiritual Court’ and Cornelia moves out of London to a house near Fulham, instead of moving from Amsterdam to Sloterdijk.
   

7. Dekker, ‘Private Vices, Public Virtues
   R
   evisited’,
   481
   -
   98
   . See also Hunt (ed.),
   Invention of Pornography, especially Hunt’s introductory essay
   .
   

8. Mandeville,
   The Fable
   ,
   95
   (see App. I).
   

9. Lotte C. van de Pol,‘Amsterdam Jews and Amsterdam Prostitution
   1650
   -
   1750
   ’, in Chaya Brasz and Josef Kaplan (eds.),
   Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others
   (Leiden,
   2000
   ),
   173
   -
   85
   .
   

10
.
5061
-
102
,
8
Apr.
1790
.

1. Boris
   R
   aptschinsky, ‘
   R
   ussische reizigers te Amsterdam in de zeventiende eeuw’,
   Jaarboek Amstelodamum
   ,
   33
   (
   1936
   ),
   155
   -
   70
   , at
   163
   .
   

2. De ongelukkige levensbeschryving
   ,
   73
   .
   13
   .
   5061
   -
   395
   f.
   242
   ,
   25
   June
   1737
   .
   

14
. Van de Pol,
Amsterdams hoerdom
,
259
-
60
.
15
.
5061
-
357
f.
27
vo,
3
June
1707
.

16
. Overbeke,
Anecdota
, nos.
223
and
1380
.
17
.
5061
-
311
f.
154
vo,
23
June
1656
.

1. Boomgaard,
   Misdaad en straf in Amsterdam
   ,
   39
   ; J. ter Gouw,
   Geschiedenis van Amsterdam
   ,
   8
   vols. (Amsterdam,
   1879
   -
   93
   ), v.
   290
   -
   1
   .
   

2. Ter Gouw,
   Geschiedenis
   , vii.
   394
   .
   

3. Bontemantel,
   De regeeringe
   , i, cxli.
   

4. Ibid. ii.
   80
   -
   3
   ;Wagenaar,
   Amsterdam
   , xii.
   49
   .
   

5. Noordkerk,
   Handvesten
   , i.
   572
   .
   ‌
   

6. Ordonnantie van de ratelwachten
   (Amsterdam,
   1673
   ).
   

7. Bontemantel,
   De regeeringe
   , i.
   87
   .
   

8. Herman A. Diederiks,
   In een land van justitie: Criminaliteit van vrouwen, soldaten en ambtenaren in de achttiende-eeuwse
   R
   epubliek
   (Hilversum,
   1992
   ),
   60
   -
   70
   .
   

9. For an analysis of this case, see Pieter Wagenaar and Otto van der Meij, ‘Een schout in de fout? Fred
   R
   igg’s prismatische model toegepast op de zaak Van Banchem’,
   Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
   (
   2005
   ),
   22
   -
   46
   .
   

10. Spierenburg,
    The Spectacle of Suffering
    ,
    47
    .
    28
    .
    5061
    -
    367
    f.
    203
    ,
    30
    Aug.
    1713
    .
    

29
. Van de Pol,
Amsterdams hoerdom
,
234
-
6
; for more information see Kernkamp,‘Bijlage III: Ontvangsten en uitgaven van het schoutsambacht’,
335
; Bontemantel,
De regeeringe
, ii.
8
and
85
; Wagenaar,
Amsterdam
, xii.
44
; Versteeg,
Van schout tot hoofdcommissaris
,
14
-
15
.

30
.
5061
-
315
f.
17
,
8
Feb.
1663
.

31
.
5061
-
316
f.
124
vo,
11
Sept.
1664
.

32
.
5061
-
397
f.
206
vo,
28
Aug.
1738
.

33
. Bontemantel,
De regeeringe
, i.
30
n.

34
.
5061
-
366
f.
42
vo,
16
Nov.
1712
;
5061
-
367
f.
170
vo,
27
July
1713
.

35
.
5061
-
337
f.
145
,
7
Dec.
1691
.

36
.
5061
-
344
f.
132
vo,
16
July
1697
.

37
. Bicker
R
aye,
Het Dagboek
,
15
. Bicker
R
aye’s surname is sometimes spelled

R
aije, but for the sake of consistency
R
aye is used here throughout.

38
.
5061
-
347
f.
188
,
11
Mar.
1699
. Between
1651
and
1750
,
252
people were

hanged in Amsterdam; Spierenburg,
Spectacle
,
105
and
213
.

39
.
5061
-
381
f.
198
,
23
Nov.
1723
.

1. For problems surrounding police informers see also
   R
   . C. Cobb,
   The Police and the People: French Popular Protest
   1789
   -
   1820
   (London,
   1970
   ),
   5
   -
   13
   .
   

2. On
   compositie
   in general, see also Lodewijk Hovy,‘Schikking in strafzaken in Holland tijdens de
   R
   epubliek’, in
   Scrinium et Scriptura: Bundel opstellen aangeboden aan J. L. van de Gouw
   (
   Nederlands Archieven Blad
   84
   ,
   1980
   ),
   413
   -
   29
   , and Faber,
   Strafrechtspleging
   ,
   34
   -
   6
   .
   

3. Groot placaet-boeck
   , i, cols.
   330
   -
   6
   .
   

4. For the legislation see
   Groot placaet-boeck
   , i, col.
   334
   and Noordkerk,
   Handvesten
   , ii.
   647
   -
   51
   . For what happened in practice see among others: Donald Haks,
   Huwelijk en gezin in Holland in de
   17
   e en
   18
   e eeuw
   (Assen,
   1982
   ),
   115
   ; A. Hallema, ‘Bestraffing van huwelijksontrouw en bestrijding van prostitutie te Amsterdam in de jaren
   1613
   -
   1621
   ’,
   Tijdschrift voor Strafrechtsgeschiedenis
   ,
   70
   /
   5
   -
   6
   (
   1961
   ),
   321
   -
   40
   , at
   322
   -
   5
   ; andVeroniqueVerhaar and Frits van den Brink,‘De bemoeienissen van stad en kerk met overspel in het achttiende-eeuwse Amsterdam’, in Sjoerd Faber (ed.),
   Nieuw licht op oude justitie: Misdaad en straf ten tijde van de
   R
   epubliek
   (Muiderberg,
   1989
   ),
   64
   -
   93
   , at
   69
   .
   

5. A
   R
   A Hof van Holland
   5404
   -
   16
   , Dec.
   1724
   .
   

6. Groot placaet-boeck
   , iii.
   507
   ; L. Ph. C. van den Bergh, ‘De baljuwen’,
   Het
   

Nederlandsch
R
ijksarchief
, i (The Hague,
1857
),
235
-
303
, at
254
-
5
. There was a great deal of gossip about this case. See e.g. Huygens,
Journalen
,
18
June
1676
.

46
.
5061
-
353
f.
269
vo,
26
Sept.
1704
.

47
.
5061
-
381
f.
154
,
7
Oct.
1723

48
.
5061
-
380
f.
165
,
1
Sept.
1722
.

1. What follows is based on
   5061
   -
   398
   , unnumbered final section,
   27
   Mar.-
   15
   May
   1739
   ;
   5061
   -
   398
   f.
   116
   vo–
   151
   vo,
   3
   ,
   8
   and
   13
   Mar.
   1739
   ; for the diaries of Jacob Bicker
   R
   aye I have consulted the manuscript, Handschrift Bibliotheek B
   54
   ,
   16
   Apr.-
   18
   May
   1739
   . Information drawn from other sources is noted as such.
   

2. Missivenboeken van de Hoofdofficier
   ,
   5016
   -
   14
   , nos.
   64
   and
   65
   ; letters. dd.
   20